Given the emotional reserve of a man whose aides once referred to as "no drama Obama," the president is getting pretty fired up about energy. On Wednesday President Obama concluded an all hands cabinet meeting at the White House by publicly declaring again his resolve to develop a "new energy strategy that the American people… Continue

We invite all journalists from the global South with an interest in climate change to apply for a 2010-11 fellowship, which will include two weeks of reporting on the UN negotiations at the COP16 meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

For details about the fellowship, requirements for applying and to begin your online application go to… Continue

Bonn, 14 June (Lim Li Lin) - Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to not mandate the holding of a Ministerial meeting before the next climate change conference in Mexico.

This issue was finally resolved at the closing plenary of the 32nd session of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) on 9 June after long debate that started in April.

Bonn, 12 June (Lim Li Lin and Chee Yoke Ling) - Negotiations for the next set of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets beyond 2012 made a little progress after more than four years of feet dragging by developed countries.

The fortnight of talks (1-11 June) saw developing countries pushing to accelerate the process to ensure that developed countries party to the Kyoto Protocol will commit to…

Bonn, 14 June (Meena Raman and Hilary Chiew) – Developing countries expressed deep dismay and sharp criticisms over a new draft text of a global climate deal presented on the final day (11 June) of the Bonn climate talks by the Chair of the working group following up on the Bali Action Plan of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Bonn, 10 June (Meena Raman) – The contact group under the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term, Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealt with the issue of the impact of mitigation actions by countries which result in economic and social consequences on 9 June.

After six months of evaluation, a Massachusetts research center said yesterday that the greenhouse gas-reducing benefits of replacing coal and natural gas with wood biomass for electrical generation are lower than previously thought.

But the study by Manomet Center for Conservation Science also found that specific wood biomass technologies, particularly state-of-the art wood biomass plants that generate combined heat and power, produce less than half of the CO2… Continue

Current negotiations are dismantling the global climate regime and risk a 4 degree C rise in global temperatures. We need a course correction in Bonn to get the negotiations back on track and aligned with the Bali Roadmap.

Academics warn that the industrialized world’s promise of billions of “new and additional” dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change is meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds.

In a briefing paper published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), they outline two workable options for defining a baseline… Continue